When list views are refresh we wee a "Loading..." message while the fetch is being performed. It would be nice if when the resource tree was updating that we saw something similar. This has been discussed before but was more formally suggested in bug 784571.
master commit 6b621264526d1490d423e14e482ff18b3ea2f85f Replace the default TreeGrid loading message, which was weak and only showed up briefly at initial tree creation, with more robust loading... message display when loading, expanding or updating the tree. This helps situations where fairly large tree load/updates take place, typically due to large numbers of siblings or Autogroup creation/manipulation.
Bulk closing of items that are on_qa and in old RHQ releases, which are out for a long time and where the issue has not been re-opened since.